United forced to cancel 80 flights

MichaelBaron

NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- United Airlines was forced to cancel 80 flights at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Sunday due to a pilot shortage, according to an Associated Press report.

The airline, which also nixed 120 flights Saturday, blamed the cancellations on pilots who have refused to work overtime since their contract expired in April, the report said.

A United (UAL) spokesman said many of the airline's pilots had already worked all their allotted weekly hours trying to make up for flights canceled Thursday and Friday due to bad weather in the East. The cancellations affected flights all over the country.

The spokesman said the airline couldn’t say when the issues with the pilots would be resolved. United and the pilots' union are currently negotiating a contract with a federal mediator and hope to have a new agreement in place by early September, the report said.

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